{"product_id":"the-now-poems-9780822965930","title":"The Now: Poems","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Now\u003c\/i\u003e describes the unique, and sometimes baffling, moment in which we live, a time defined by an immediate future of online wonderments, fake news, multiple personalities, data economy, gene modification, and the rest of the exciting-and-yet-ominous \"technology culture,\" even as it's a time when the urge to memorialize the past--to sing elegiacally--seems more important than ever. Between poems that consider the disappearance of language in an age of digital\/binary communication, and poems that mourn the disappearance of fellow poets and artists, this collection attempts to stand on a nano-second that looks both backward and forward in time: the ever-shifting \"now.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Goldbarth\u003c\/b\u003e has been publishing books for nearly fifty years. He\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewon the National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003eSaving Lives\u003c\/i\u003e and for \u003ci\u003eHeaven and Earth: A Cosmology\u003c\/i\u003e, the only poet to receive the honor two times. Goldbarth's other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Milt Kessler Award. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and multiple appearances in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry \u003c\/i\u003eseries and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePushcart Prize\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Wichita, Kansas.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845644292370,"sku":"9780822965930","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_26dd0fdd-cea1-482c-9c5d-088b5e895a6e.jpg?v=1737354982","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-now-poems-9780822965930","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}